The undercut left arête of the buttress from a standing start. Using a crimp for the left and a sloper for the right hand, a number of methods may be employed to reach the good hold half-way up the arête. From here, gain the top, gainly or ungainly.

Start as for Under Rumsfeld but on reaching Rageh Omaar, continue traversing right via a small edge to reach the start of Fat Punter's Roof. Finish up this. Harder since the deterioration of the crimp on the lip between Rageh Omaar and Fat Punter's Roof.

Starting as for Hercules, make a very difficult move from the slots using a heel-hook in the jug on Under Rumsfeld to the crimp on the lip of Crazy Legs Crome. Finish up Fat Punter's Roof. Powerful and hard.

Starting on the pockets at the back of the roof, make a big move out to the lip, make a difficult match and gain the chipped jug on Fat Punter's Roof, then finish up that problem. The plinth is in at this grade.

The central blank line up the left-hand buttress. Starting at the lip on crimps, rock up to gain the poor slopers (they are there, honest) and then throw or rock a long way to the sloping top. The 7B grade was first given by Andy Swann, some indication of the actual difficulty comes from its lack of ascents!

The full central line of the left-hand buttress, without deviation (or hesitation, and it rarely gets any repetition either). Start on the pockets, without the plinth, and blast out to the lip to finish up Revival. Excellent climbing.

Start at the pockets, move out to the lip plinthless, then traverse right and drop down onto good edges to the start of Whitefinger Low. Finish up this. Powerful, with a heart-breaking last move, unless you get Whitefinger on lock-down!

The right arête of the left buttress, or the left arête of the Central Crack, but either way you look at it, fantastic rounded arête-hugging on small, sharp holds. The name becomes apparent. Either rock up statically with the left hand off the small sharp crimp or reach right-hand around into the crack for a good sidepull sloper and stand up to the top. The plinth is in at this grade, but the bottom moves aren't tricky compared to the crux!

The ultimate link-up of the left buttress. Start as for Under Rumsfeld, follow Crazy Legs Crome to the chipped jug, drop down to the lip, carry on traversing rightwards into Corporal Kahn to finish up Whitefinger. Huge and tiring with a hard section right at the end.

Another stamina haul, completed after three months of effort. As for Yes We Can, but finish more easily by either getting stuck into Central Crack (note: that's get stuck into, not get stuck in, like the first ascensionist did) or by using good holds on Baghdad Bunker, right of Central Crack. If you're lucky, you might get to see Slinky Bob, barking incessantly at a rock or herding sheep.

Starting at the Central Crack without the plinth, traverse the low lip of the right buttress rightwards to finish at the end of the crag. No plinths are allowed. Sustained, tricky, slopey and excellent!

Start on the reinforced undercut at the back of the roof, just left of the detached plinth, with feet on the back wall only. Blast out to the lip, get double toe-hooks, swap hands, tie yourself in a knot and somehow finish up Dubya plinthless. An involved sequence. The undercut recently broke so take care.